November 2024 TEC News & Events

Now that the election's over and we've all (hopefully) spent Veteran's Day recovering, it's time to enjoy your TEC! We've got two new podcast episodes and our November Privacy PIE event will break down all the privacy wins and losses of 2024. The TEC Article Club features a deep dive on Singapore – smart city or surveillance nightmare? Details below!

Save your seat today for our event about the biggest privacy wins and losses that happened in 2024.

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This was a big year for privacy and it can be hard to keep track of it all. Join Christina Eichelkraut in a breakdown of the biggest court rulings, laws and administrative actions that will impact your personal and digital privacy from now on.


NEW AND UPCOMING TEC TALKS PODCAST EPISODES

We've got two new episodes of the TEC Talks podcast!

Unhappy Programmers?

Inspired by a Fireship video discussing the 2024 Stack Overflow survey that said 80 percent of programmers were unhappy, TEC called in a few of its own programmers to discuss.

This special episode features three guests and a host who are all programmers. TEC board members Andrew Karnes and Connor Johnson, community member Ryan Jones. Hosted by TEC CTO, board member and full stack dev Charles (Chuck) Knox.
Gabe Noga tells us what it's like to be tasked with getting more students into STEM fields by the National Science Foundation.
  • UPCOMING: Digital forensics specialist Jonathan Dellmar discusses what it's like to acquire and analyze digital evidence for the legal system. All opinions are his own.

Bookmark podcast.techedcollab.org and never miss an episode! (And sometimes get earlier access to new episodes, too!)


Be on the show!

If you're an experienced technologist and would like to be on the show, contact us or email contact@techedcollab.org. Interviews for day-in-the-life segments can be done remotely and generally take about 30 minutes. Longform interviews and discussion topics are also welcome.


November 2024 TEC Article Club

Singapore: Smart city paradise or dystopian surveillance nightmare?

Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare

Publication: rest of world (https://restofworld.org/)

Long and Ugly Link:
https://restofworld.org/2021/singapores-tech-utopia-dream-is-turning-into-a-surveillance-state-nightmare/

Date Published: November 16, 2021 (info and issue still applies; depending on your perspective, it's either better or worse

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